Adobe Digital Editions

The joy of seamless fulfillment

Overview

Adobe Content Server 6.5 (ACS) helps you securely distribute and monetize your eBooks and PDF content. Offer great ease-of-use as the books your customers purchase, appear automatically across all their eBook readers. Open new markets with flexible business models for subscription and text book distribution. As ACS supports open, industry-standard formats publishers remain free to set and pursue their own business models, experimenting and innovating as they choose.

Features of the Content Server

Seamless fulfilment of books across devices

Offer great ease-of-use as the books your customers purchase, appear automatically across all their eBook readers.

Distributors can choose to enforce a stronger DRM on specific books. When this flag is set, the book can be opened only by readers based on RMSDK 10.0 or above.

Subscription-based pricing

Charge your distributors a different rate for subscription resources such as journals or periodicals. Enable this feature by generating a subscription id to be used while packaging. Billing system pulls out transactions categorized as subscriptions to apply differential billing rates.

School Model

Allow schools to access books in their own devices through distributor’s content management platform. Students can access books on their own device or pooled school devices.

Geo based pricing

Avail reduced transaction fee with differential pricing in emerging Geos. While packaging, use the new parameter to indicate differential pricing along with the location ISO code.

Bulk Fulfillment (Preloaded books)

Enable distributors to pre-load and license DRM books for distribution in a school/district using multiple devices. Minimize operational overheads for schools by preloading books on devices. Multiple downloads of the same book onto the device or student login will not be required.

Expiration of permissions for lending content

Make eBooks available for a specified length of time. Return the content to the lender at the end of the specified period.